Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG

• recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This has more to do with how commuter trains are forced to give priority to freight trains, causing delays, than actual travel times

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    no it has to do with stopping at every damn town and there being mountains that slow the trains the fuck down from whatever speed y’all imagine them being able to go to like, 40mph. but please go off.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not that extreme, but even if we assume a 200 mph HSR train:

  • It would still take 12 hours to drive the 2500 miles from Los Angeles (California) to Jacksonville (Florida)
  • It would still take 6 hours to drive the 1200 miles from Jacksonville (Florida) to Boston (Massachusetts)

  Admittedly, there’s a point to be made that hardly anyone would drive from Florida straight to Massachusetts or the other way around, but the distance is still impressive.

  Airplanes who fly at 600 mph reduce that travel time to 1/3rd.

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you go 300km/h by train and 900km/h by plane then the numbers don’t add up.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they got some fuckin mountains, it ain’t flat

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